august 12th on w. we have to invite it back. and dance with the be. the big. this is you know we lose live from berlin seeing red the pandemic wreaks havoc on the world economy corner virus this amazing united states g.d.p. shrinking at by a record shattering 33 percent for the virus also ravaging europe's biggest economy germany contracting it by 10 percent new year's worth of growth and wiped out across the world in a matter of months also coming up donald trump flow still of delaying november's

presidential election he claims mail in voting will make the boat the most innocuous of front lines in history and. new. nasa launches its newest or world's worst for surveillance on a 7 month long journey destination mars all its mission to look for signs of ancient life on the surface of the red planet. i'm well iraq it's good to be with you all or to begin this broadcast with the latest victim of the corona virus pandemics the u.s. economy well it shrank by a stunning 33 percent that's according to figures released by the government but it is worth mentioning that if the u.s. counted g.d.p. like europe does. then it would only have fallen by 10 percent on the huge

quarterly contraction is the biggest since records began in 1947 it covers the months april to june when large parts of the us economy were brought to a standstill due to a pandemic lock downs and weekly jobless claims have risen slightly suggesting any tentative recovery will be a slow one. and that news comes hot on the heels of also epically bad economic figures from germany german g.d.p. fell by more than 10 percent in the 2nd quarter marking the biggest drop in the country's modern history consumer spending business investment and exports all collapsed because of the coronavirus pandemic. neither the stock market crash nor the oil price shock managed what this tiny virus has done the fruits of 10 years of growth were wiped out within weeks the german economy collapsed in march but the

federal statistics office says the full force of the crisis is only now being reflected in the numbers. a 10 point one percent decline in the 2nd quarter it's never been anything like it everything has suffered exports imports a services investment it's only thanks to mess of intervention by the states that unemployment hasn't gone through the roof around $7000000.00 germans are currently on so-called short time work they work less and the state pays part of their wages economic observers are divided some say the german economy is already on a recovery course others are bracing for a tsunami of bankruptcies. are want to delve now a little a deeper into those the g.d.p. figures with the burner for stats and he is senior economist at lakefield partners in a very good day the biggest contractions since 1947 i mean that

is historic how worried are you. well i'm actually very worried a clearly this is a historically never seen before all economic handbooks that we had need to be rewritten and will be written unfortunately we don't know yet how much the recovery will do we have seen the contraction part now the question will be how much of the recovery will be see the hope is clearly that this will be a recovery which is also in the history books as the fastest recovery ever however what seems to be clear now is that the industries which were hardest hit are also the biggest employers and that is the biggest fear not only of economists but also of the governments that this will be a jobless recovery and d.l.'s the city in europe which is by definition very low will be even lower and will search also have an impact on the consumers all right

well let's focus now on on this historic number at this slump that we're seeing right now is there hope that this is the bottom of the curve or could we possibly go even lower. i think we could go lower of course what the government has tried to do each in their own way is to bridge the loss of income and of revenue for companies of course there's a limit to time budget that they have to do that and also a financial budget that needs to be paid for that clearly there is a team together with the central banks which make sure that they can finance that for a long time but the fear is that if there is a flare up of the number of new cases and in case of the 2nd wave more towards the autumn that that will affect again and that there will be a lot down maybe not us forceful as the 1st one but that will have

a negative economic impact as well all right now both the u.s. and germany u.s. the largest economy in the world germany the largest economy in the european union experiencing these dizzying contractions economic distress contractions which economy has been hit hard i know the numbers are very different but who will recover sooner you think. well i think that's a question that needs to be answered by a medical specialist i think what we've seen is the 1st wave hit china then it went to europe and now it's in the us and in the emerging markets i think that's how the economies will eventually recover. unless of course there is a medicine that this very helpful and if there is a vaccine then it depends on who will have the 1st vaccine so that race is on but typically and that's also the reason why the dollar is weakening a bit because europe is coming out of it 1st the question is more how will they

come out will they come up with the jobs recovered will as such a deed the consumer have the confidence or will that not happen the chance of europe having a high jobless recovery or job recovery is clearly lower than and u.s. so the u.s. will bounce back a bit faster but it will take more time so you think the u.s. economy is more resilient than the german or economy i think they are because also the composition they're a bit more technology oriented looking at the dax for example 80 percent of the companies would be typically classified as cyclical companies it's very highly export oriented so if the world doesn't open up exports will not open up and it will take more time u.s. has more heavy weight on the technology which seems to be one of the sectors that benefited from the lockdown right through no where 1st that a senior economist at lakefield partner said thank you sir. and moments after the

u.s. released the worst g.d.p. numbers on record u.s. president dollar trump suggested delaying the 2020 election until he says it becomes safer to vote unhindered by a coronavirus related restrictions will the president took to twitter to say that quote universal mail in voting would make the election the most in accurate and fraudulent in history he then asked delay the election until people can properly securely and safely vote well tom is currently lagging in opinion polls only congress can change the date which is set by law for november 3rd. well earlier i had the opportunity to talk to our washing correspondents all over salad and asked him whether there was any substance to president trump's claim that mail in voting is prone to fraud the president exactly claims but does not really deliver substantial proof to back this claim and the only argument he's

putting forward in fact is that mailing voting by mail is insecure and in fact there are studies who have looked at this from a closer viewpoint and they say that there is no hard evidence to prove this claim so the question then is of course why is donald trump doing that and there is just one assumption and that is looking at how politicized wearing a mask here is in the united states you just have to look up president trump's texas really yesterday were hardly anyone was wearing a mask where says if you look at democrats or democratic strongholds just go on the streets here in washington d.c. where almost everyone is wearing a mask so the assumption is that democrats are taking that threat posed by the coronavirus more seriously therefore prone to vote by mail whereas republicans would rather vote in person and then if you look at president sean's polls there are turning that are going down recently so trump trying to turn the tide here is what critics are fearing and that he's testing the waters 'd and seeing how far he

can go with his ideas. today speaking to me earlier from washington d.c. so much more news that we want to tell you about here are some of the other stories making headlines around the world. u.s. lawmakers have accused apple facebook google and amazon of using harmful practices to stifle their competitors while the c.e.o.'s of the tech giants were testifying at an anti trust hearing a congressional panel is weighing whether to regulate the company's more heavily. the u.s. administration has agreed to gradually withdraw federal police from the city of portland oregon after weeks of clashes with protesters local authorities have criticised the asians presence saying it made matters worse washington said the officers were needed to protect federal court buildings. hong kong authorities have disqualified a doesn't pro-democracy candidates from running in upcoming elections the

governments that they had failed to uphold the city's constitution among those barred is prominent activist joshua want these that the decision showed a total disregard for the will of the people of hong kong. now to something truly out of this world nasa has just longs launched rather a new mission to mars to search for signs of life an atlas 5 rocket blasted off cape canaveral florida early on thursday on board is perseverance now says new rover that will take rock samples and help scientists study the martian surface like never before this equipped with the most complex robotic system nasa has ever developed. diversions to send to test out to new navigation system it's an autopilot designed to work at the best talk at night cation and steer towards it. it's

supposed to make touchdown safer and more precise. the rover is aiming for this riverbed in the year 0 crater. perseverance were investigated surroundings with cameras and measuring devices. researchers hope the data will get the new insights into the geology and climatic history of mas but perseverance has another job too to search for signs of life. we probably won't find old d.n.a. or anything like battery on mars. but we might find rocks that were formed by a biological process is that's what we're expecting or at least we're hoping. this. master cam said has been specially developed to search for these traces of life. it has 2 cameras which can deliver detail to color photographs in 3 d.

the camera system also has an advanced zoom to help researches see tiny patterns and structures in the rock the all. there is our team leader is a professor in arizona and he always puts it like this imagine you're sitting in the stands of a football stadium at the goal end you can see a fly buzzing around between the goal posts at the other end of. the mission is also sending a small helicopter to mars. its job is to carry out autonomous test flights where it controls the whole process by itself. it's propellers have to spin 8 times as fast as on earth because the atmosphere of mars is so thin. since the 1st flight attempts it's taken engineers 5 years to get to this point. the missions most important goal is to collect rock samples examine them and pack them ready for transport to do this perseverance is fitted with the most complex robotic system

nasa has ever developed. perseverance will deposit the samples on the surface of mars in 10 years. another rover will collect them and bring them to a launch pad iraq it will then carry them to a satellite in orbit which will finally bring the precious cargo to. so he spends his entire life fighting for civil rights in the united states today representative john lewis is being mourned and celebrated at his funeral which is under way right now on the former icon of the civil rights movement died earlier this month at the age of $88.00 and here are now some impressions from the service at the ebenezer baptist church in atlanta georgia. thanks be all to god. robert louis the victory of. john lewis believed in the log.

he believed in humanity and he believed in america. he got into a lot of good travel along the way but let's not forget he also developed an absolutely uncanny ability to heal troubled waters of. presidents there and former president barack obama is expected to give the eulogy momentarily. this is the news thank you for watching. combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and news. hour corona. 19 special next on the.